Party Name : Communist Party of India
Constituency : Panskura
State : West Bengal
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 7 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 13
Father's Name : Late Shri Prafulla Kumar Roychowdhury
Mother's Name : Late Smt. Shaila Bala Roychowdhury
Date of birth : 08 Jan 1924
Profession : Writer Social Worker
Positions held :
1946 Member, State Committee, Communist Party of India (C.P.I.), Bengal1967-77 Member, West Bengal Legislative AssemblyMember, Various Committees, West Bengal Legislative Assembly1978 onwards Member, National Council, C.P.I.1980 Elected to 7th Lok Sabha1980-83 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings1981-82 Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes1981-84 Member, Joint Committee on Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 19801981 onwards Member, National Executive Committee, C.P.I.1984 Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (2nd term)1985-86 and 1987-89 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings1989 Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term)1989-91 Member, Panel of ChairmenMember, House Committee1990-91 Member, General Purposes CommitteeMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting1991 Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (4th term)1991-92 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings1993-96 Member, Panel of Chairmen1993-95 Member, Committee on Public Accounts1993-97 Member, Committee on External Affairs1993 onwards Member, Joint Select Committee on Bills relating to Women1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (5th term)1996-97 Chairperson, Joint Select Committee on Reservation of Seats for Women in Lok Sabha and Legislative AssembliesChairperson, Joint Committee on Offices of ProfitMember, Panel of ChairmenMember, Committee on CommunicationsMember, Joint Committee on the Empowerment of Women1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (6th term)1998 onwards Member, Secretariat, C.P.I.1998-99 Member, Committee on Public UndertakingsMember, Committee on External Affairs and its Sub-Committee-IMember, Joint Committee on the Empowerment of Women and its Sub-Committee on Appraisal of Laws relating to Women-Criminal LawsMember, Committee on Provision of Computers to Members of ParliamentMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (7th term)1999-2000 Member, Committee on Human Resource DevelopmentExpired on 4 March, 2000
More Information :
Books Published
(i) Bharat Upakatha; (ii) Chotader Rabindranath; (iii) He Atit Katha Kao (all in Bengali); and (iv) Bengali translation of `Naked among Wolves`
Literary, Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments
Regularly contributing articles to various newspapers and weeklies
Social And Cultural Activities
Women`s employment, women`s movement, student movement, peasant movement and eradication of illiteracy; working for womens` empowerment and also for building communal harmony
Special Interests
Theory and practice of Marxism and Leninism
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Poetry, songs and socialising with rural women and younger generation
Countries Visited
Widely travelled (Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Germany, U.A.E., U.K., U.S.A., former U.S.S.R., etc.)
Other Information
Participated in the Freedom Struggle; imprisoned several times for participation in mass movements during pre-independence and post-independence periods; Associated with C.P.I. as a student since 1939; General-Secretary, Bengal Provincial Students` Federation, 1947-51; Vice-President, National Federation of Women; Secretariat Member, Women`s International Democratic Federation, Berlin, 1958; Executive Member, National Federation of Indian Women since 1965; Member, (i) National Commission on Rural Labour, 1986, (ii) National Commission on Women, 1988; (iii) National Children`s Board, 1990; (iv) Press Council; and (v) Court of Visva Bharati, 1998-99
